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by mehalter 2621 days ago
In cases where I have a very specific error code or issue I'm looking into I prefer keyword based search, but in most situations where my search is broad or I am not exactly sure what is causing an error, semantic search gets me to an answer quicker.

Although between the two, I think I use keyword searching more an a regular basis. Even in semantic search engines, I tend to use a lot of quotes to get some keyword based results.

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I prefer using a real search engine to get me the keywords to search for. Then I can find exactly what I want in the keywordsearch. With a sematic search engine on a small ammount of data I mostly find nothing or everything and have to scan through a lot of pages to maybe find what I'm searching.